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looking for a DLNA adapter for older TV?

I travel a lot, used to hard-wire my ipod touch to hotel tv to watch videos. Not many hotels have DLNA- ready TV's. Does anyone know if there's such a thing as an "adapter" that would hook up to the TV (maybe an RCA cable or hdmi) and recieve the signal from my droid 2 global?

OK - interesting question and a new one for me. Having a phone with an HDMI port gives me a leg up on having checked into a bit of this.

First - going from digital to RCA (composite (1-yellow)) isn't cheap - I was able to track down one or two boxes, one on Amazon that as I recall went for +200 bucks. And that was with HDMI in.

What you're asking (and very intriguing, by the way) would have that same thing adding a wifi radio, and then the DLNA software. Just for that - nope, I'm not sure we'd find one of those.

OK, how about same thing, with HDMI out saving that digital-to-analog cost? Mmmk - but we never did account for network management to get the signal from the phone to the box - and the hotel's wifi isn't really going to cut it for that (per most hotels I've been in). And to have an on-board wireless manager in addition to DLNA... I can't imagine anyone making one of those.

And if they did, I'd imagine they'd have to stick the price up to pay for engineering.

So, I looked at the new Roku boxes because I'd heard they were getting DLNA support -

I haven't found anything - that's way cool - thanks. I can't find that it's available yet though...

#4 EarlyMon, Jan 17, 2011

Yea I can't find it either. It's called the htc media link dg h100, but after ten seconds of research, I only found speculated release dates and high prices.

#5 mjrtom, Jan 17, 2011

Well, the car dock was shown early, too.

#6 EarlyMon, Jan 17, 2011

Really the only cheap thing out there is a low-end Blu-Ray player that does DLNA streaming, but that's not exactly portable.

It's an interesting question, but I doubt you'll see a whole lot of people jumping to offer something like this. It'd need Wi-Fi, the video out systems and be able to run a light DLNA media client. Technically it shouldn't be crazy, but the cost of development and small audience would probably keep the price too high to really make money off it. I think your best bet is to get a phone with video out (or that has a home docking station with video out).

I'm guessing you're a frequent business traveller, so I'm also guessing you travel with a laptop. You're probably better off throwing a small, light wi-fi router in your bag to network your phone and laptop together and then output your laptop to the TV.

#7 dawankler, Jan 18, 2011

Netgear HDTV Media Player

WD Media Link

Asus O!Play

Sony PS3 or xBox

#8 streetr, Jun 15, 2011

Does this come close to what you're thinking of www dot newegg dot com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815117015

Sorry - I can't post links yet... if you can't figure that out, then you probably can't figure out how to use that device, though.